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Quotes About Language

Don't tawch meh matherfawker!
~ Tommy Wiseau
Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
~ Debasish Mridha
We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.
~ Debasish Mridha
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
~ Debasish Mridha
The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.
~ Debasish Mridha
Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings.
~ Debasish Mridha
Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.
~ Chinua Achebe.
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).
~ Umar
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.
~ Christian Finnegan
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.
~ Peter Watts
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
~ Marshall McLuhan
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
~ Louise Leakey
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
~ Barbara Walters
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
~ Robert Graves
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~ William Arthur Ward
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
~ Mark Twain
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Kind words can heal and harsh words can kill
~ Beta Metani' Marashi
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
~ Toni Morrison
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
~ Thomas Reid
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
~ Michel Foucault